News & Announcements Archive

New Publications from Professor Douglas Mao

New Publications from Professor Douglas Mao

Professor Douglas Mao has released his latest monograph, Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice​, which has been published by the Princeton University Press. Professor Mao has also edited a […]

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Book Named MSA Book Prize

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Book Named MSA Book Prize

The Department of English is proud to announce Prof. Nadia’s recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been named this year’s Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize Winner. […]

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Latest Book Shortlisted For MSA Book Prize

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s Latest Book  Shortlisted For MSA Book Prize

We are proud to announce Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s most recent book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, has been shortlisted to receive the Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize. Each […]

Graduate Student Sarah Ross Named AGHI’s 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow

The Department of English is proud to announce Sarah Ross, a PhD Candidate in English at Johns Hopkins, has been named the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute 2020 Humanities Blast Fellow, […]

Graduate Student Jo Giardini Receives Yale LGBT Fellowship

The Department of English is proud to announce graduate student Jo Giardini has received a Yale LGBT Studies Research Fellowship for Spring 2021. This fellowship supports scholars from any field […]

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s book on short list for MAAH Stone Book Award

Professor Nadia Nurhussein’s book on short list for MAAH Stone Book Award

Professor Nadia Nurhussein of the English Department has had her book, Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America, selected as a finalist in this year’s MAAH Stone Book Award. This […]

Statement from the English Department

The Johns Hopkins Department of English has watched with horror the continued state-sanctioned murder of Black Americans, and the violent repression of principled dissent that followed. We condemn the militarization […]

Blast Courses Offered by English Graduate Students

Blast Courses Offered by English Graduate Students

The Department of English is delighted to announce that five English graduate students have been chosen to help inaugurate a pilot program of humanities courses this summer.  Sponsored by the […]

Professor Nadia Nurhussein named 2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

Professor Nadia Nurhussein named 2020 Finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019 […]

Professor Mary Favret Named Vice Dean

Professor Mary Favret Named Vice Dean

The Department of English is proud to announce effective July 1, 2020, Professor Mary Favret will be the vice dean for graduate education, and centers and programs in the Krieger […]